African swine fever virus

• In view of this, Ministers committed to continuous improvement of BRM programs to support farmers and ranchers.
• In order to ensure timeliness, simplicity and predictability of AgriStability, Ministers agreed to the implementation of an optional new model.
• Ministers support the importance of traceability measures and stated the necessity of ensuring that measures are designed to reflect operational realities.
• Sustainable CAP is a five-year, $3.5-billion investment by Canada's federal, provincial and territorial governments that supports Canada's agri-food and agri-products sectors.

• The Polydex Board reviewed Polydex’s current and historical financial condition, capital needs, liquidity, results of operations, business and competitive position, as well as Polydex’s future business plans and potential long-term value, taking into account its future prospects and costs.
• Based on this review and the surrounding circumstances, the Polydex Board concluded the Arrangement was the most favorable alternative available to the Polydex Shareholders.
• George Usher, the President and CEO of Polydex commented that “We are extremely pleased with the transaction we have struck with BioSpectra.
• Other risk factors discussed in the Company’s financial reports may also affect the actual results achieved by the Company.

• Sometimes called “lab-grown meat”, the process involves growing animal products from animal cells in a controlled laboratory environment.
• The process eliminates many of the environmental, animal welfare and human health concerns that are associated with industrial livestock systems today.
• And on March 28, Italy’s minister of agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, announced that the country would become the first to ban lab-grown foods.

How are meat products grown?

• This task is carried out by stem cells, which are specialised in cellular division.
• A range of other animal products can be cultivated in a lab, including seafood and milk.

Fewer resources

• At present, livestock production alone consumes 70% of the world’s arable land and uses vast amounts of water.
• Meat consumption is expected to double by 2050 as the middle class grows in China, Brazil, India and across Africa.

Lower health risk

• Cultivating meat from cells can also reduce the risk of disease development and prevent unnecessary animal suffering.
• But these cramped conditions also make diseases like avian flu, mad cow disease and the African swine fever virus more likely to develop and spread.
• These bacteria live inside an animals’ gut and can contaminate the meat when the animal is slaughtered.

An environmentally friendly alternative?

• But growing meat from cells can have a similar – and sometimes even worse – environmental footprint.
• Cellular food technologies generate more CO₂ (up to 22.1kg of CO₂ per kg of meat) than conventional cattle farms at present (which produce up to 5.4kg CO₂).
• This is largely because maintaining the right conditions for cell growth in a laboratory consumes a lot of energy.
• In comparison, a kilogram of meat produced on a conventional farm can generate up to 1.2kg of methane.

• As the only USDA licensed PCR kits for these diseases, Tetracore's VetAlert™ ASF and FMD Diagnostic Test kits will be critical in minimizing the potentially devastating impacts of a FAD outbreak.
• To address the need for laboratory surge capacity in an outbreak scenario, the USDA has asked Tetracore to stock their USDA-licensed test kits for FMD and ASF.
• The VetAlert™ ASF and FMD Diagnostic Test kits have been updated using contemporary viral sequences, to ensure the test remains fit for purpose.
• The VetAlert™ ASF and FMD Diagnostic Test kits were developed and commercialized by Tetracore scientists and are sold exclusively by Tetracore.